mutt-nntp from cron

[Andre Berger]

Hi!

I'm using Orjan's nntp-patch and am very happy with it. As I'm on a
dial-up connection most of the time, I'm using the offline mode which
spools outgoing posts to a file, and NNTPPost delivers it when
triggered from a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ (Debian). Another script
there fetches mail, executing

/usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc 

as user, with /etc/muttnewsrc being

folder-hook . push Bxy

so mutt starts read-only non-changing mailboxes, doing B which
fetches the news, and then quits non-changing.

So this works, the same when 

/usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc

is executed from the command line as user. The problem is, it doesn't
work when executed from a user's crontab. I edit it with

crontab -e

and add

*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc  /dev/null 21

(one line). The   /dev/null 21 part is to prevent cron from
sending mail on job execution.

What am I missing here?

-Andre



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Re: mutt-nntp from cron

[Sven Guckes]

* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-21 14:29]:
 .. The problem is, it doesn't work when executed from a
 user's crontab.  I edit it with crontab -e and add
 
 */2 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc  /dev/null 21
 
 (one line). The   /dev/null 21 part is to
 prevent cron from sending mail on job execution.
 What am I missing here?

*/2?  hmm...  perhaps you should run it *with*
some output so you can see the error message?  and
why not use something like slrnpull to get new news?

Sven